Growing up in South Florida I always had Jewish friends, the majority reform but also some Orthodox. Plus my dad's business partners were typically Jewish, my brother married the daughter of a Cuban Jew and my prep high school...I attended Belen Jesuit for 4 yrs, but my last 2 were at Gulliver, comprised primarily by Jews.
Funny on matters of faith sometimes I feels closer to them than some of irrational, extreme evagelical rhetoric that evinces anti-Catholic and virulent anti-Papal rhetoric.
Obviously JP2 history and efforts has brought us very close, and Benedict XVI visiting w/ Jewish leaders in NYC...
Growing up in South Florida I always had Jewish friends, the majority reform but also some Orthodox. Plus my dad's business partners were typically Jewish, my brother married the daughter of a Cuban Jew and my prep high school...I attended Belen Jesuit for 4 yrs, but my last 2 were at Gulliver, comprised primarily by Jews.
ReplyDeleteFunny on matters of faith sometimes I feels closer to them than some of irrational, extreme evagelical rhetoric that evinces anti-Catholic and virulent anti-Papal rhetoric.
Obviously JP2 history and efforts has brought us very close, and Benedict XVI visiting w/ Jewish leaders in NYC...
I bet that was a good experiece. We used to have more Jews even in the Northern Part of the State but they all moved away.
ReplyDeleteI really did not get to know many Jews till I went to college but still not thatn many because most went to Tulane